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Originally Posted by normtwofinger
Desk jobs are easier for sure. One reason why is pay.
In an everyday office job, would your boss ever hold back some of your pay because he/she doesn't think you did enough work to earn it? We get held back hours of work all the time, on a whim of the boss.
Some construction companies don't pay proper overtime and vacation/holdiday pay. And it's easy to say, report them and go find another company to work for, but there is not much choice right now with the economy. Would this happen in an office job? No.
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To your first point, not all desk jobs are high paying, and you usually have to put in a lot of years at a desk job to get anywhere near what you would think of as high paying.
In a desk job, if your not hitting precise metrics in terms of production, they usually don't dock pay, you're usually replaced.
And overtime, forget about it, in a desk job your usually on a fixed monthly salary, so if a project looms you work for free until it gets done.
I've been doing desk jobs for about 20 years, and absolutely I get paid well now, but thats because I established my credibility in my role, but the last time I ever saw overtime was when I paved for a summer a couple of decades ago.